The Fate of the English Country House

by David Littlejohn

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For millions of people in the English-speaking world, the now standard image of the British country house is Brideshead Castle in Wiltshire: the domed and doomed baroque country seat of the Marchmain family seen in the BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited. In real life, the house used for the television series is Castle Howard, one of the largest and most opulent private homes in England, located on 10,000 acres of gardens,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019508876X

ISBN13:9780195088762

Release Date:April 1997

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:2.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"

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